Peoria, IL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

E. Adams, and the west side of the 200 block of SW Jefferson Street. Everywhere else, an application goes to the director of public works, who weighs the width of the public way, parking and traffic congestion, pavement weight limits, and the proximity of utility poles, meters, bus shelters, benches, street trees, and news racks before approving or denying a spot. The director cannot approve a location that substantially obstructs the public way, sits adjacent to a bus stop, taxi stand, or handicap loading zone, falls within 30 feet of an intersection, sits directly in front of a property entryway, or fails to leave a four-foot pedestrian walkway on the sidewalk.

Locations within or bordering a residentially zoned area are barred outright. Outside downtown, vendors must stay at least 300 feet from a licensed food establishment (measured from the parking space edge to the establishment's building), unless that establishment's proprietor gives written, unpaid consent, or the mobile vendor is affiliated with the establishment. No location may sit within 500 feet of a city-licensed fair, carnival, circus, festival, or special event without the event holder's written permission (this exception doesn't apply to indoor Peoria Civic Center events), and none may sit within 500 feet of a school or school playground while school or school activities are underway.

Vendors must also follow the traffic and parking rules of Chapter 28, and government parking uses take precedence over mobile food vehicles in the downtown designated spots.